9780137588220

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This clearly written, comprehensive textbook explores the African-American experience in the United States from its African origins to the present. It highlights the pivotal role African Americans have played in the nation's history, placing their experience in the context of national trends and events. Tracing their journey towards freedom and full participation in American democracy, The African-American Odyssey gives voice to leaders and ordinary men and women from all walks of life. It examines the rich and expressive culture and the independent institutions African Americans created to address their needs and ensure the survival of their communities. It explores the impact of African-American culture on the larger American culture. And it forthrightly discusses both the new opportunities and the deeply rooted inequalities confronting African Americans at the beginning of the new millennium.

Table of Contents

PART I BECOMING AFRICAN AMERICAN

1

(117)

Africa

2

(22)

Middle Passage

24

(22)

Black People in British North America, 1619-1763

46

(24)

Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763-1783

70

(22)

African Americans in the New Nation, 1783-1820

92

(25)

PART II SLAVERY, ABOLITION, AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM: THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1793-1861

117

(110)

Life in the Cotton Kingdom

118

(22)

Free Black People in Antebellum America

140

(24)

Opposition to Slavery, 1800-1833

164

(18)

Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833-1850

182

(22)

``And Black People Were at the Heart of it'': The United States Disunites Over Slavery

204

(23)

PART III THE CIVIL WAR, EMANCIPATION, AND BLACK RECONSTRUCTION: THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION